Chapter 2 (1/2)

This happened during the season where japan is ruled by the chorus of cicadas and the sweltering sun The closing cere the start of summer vacation had ended, and ere on our way back home from school

“Ah, Wait a minute”

… I scratched ain That was because I did not understand what she meant

“Say it again”

“A, all right Yuu-kun I’m sorry I worded it badly so Yuu-kun can’t understand”

“Yuu-kun” is the nickname she selfishly came up with on her own to refer to me

My name is shi+moyama Yuuki

I’h school sophomore

I have no special hobbies I aets troubled because I can’t say anything much when I have to introduce myself

Then, the one being self-deprecating in front of me is my childhood friend Sakurai Arina

She’s a plain, braided, pitiful-looking girl who alalks while looking doards

Ordinary boy-girl childhood friends would cut off relations once they get to irl had always been so dull that she doesn’t have any other friends Because she was always alone I can’t leave her on her own, and when I noticed it she had been dragging alongside rade school

It’s justthis, but if she faced forwards and smiled she had a relatively cute face If only she had otten herself a boyfriend, but…

Back to the topic

I was about to give her soratulations for her 17th birthday today when she started saying so like this

“Yuu-kun, ah, ummm Arina is, you know, a Hero Hero of another world… e, ehehehe”

―, what?

You’d want to ask again wouldn’t you?

“I totally have no idea what you’re saying”

“Y y y, yeah, that’s true You won’t understand Because Arina is an idiot”

“Being an idiot has nothing to do with it Even an idiot… Huh? what? A Hero? You?”

“Yeah, looks that way”

While she said that she ru out

A em that totally screams ‘Hero!’

Arina put it on her head and said, “Look… the legendary equipment, see?”

What do you mean ‘see?’

The sight of her wearing a deep blue sailor uniform and a thick metal circlet was somewhat bizarre

A noro like this:

[Ahahaha, a joke, huh? That’s not funny at all, you know]

“You, did you fall for some dubious fraud? It’s a bit eccentric for a fraud but if it’s you then it ht just be possible”

“Umm, that’s not, uh… S, s, sorry!”

Because she iized the conversation stopped there

This is why I’m just about the only one who could hold a conversation with her, by coaxing this and that out of her, I was able to finally grasp the whole picture

In the irl’s mother said this:

“Arina… Arina, get up Today you’re going toin the castle”

At this point I already wanted to retort, but I just took it and let it go

Then of course, this siirl answered just like this:

“Mom, I don’t understand”

Well of course

“Listen, I’ve never talked about this until now, but your late father was a Hero from another world So, you who have the Hero’s blood in you have to go on a journey to defeat the De once you turn 17”

She was talking about so completely removed from the common sense I knew

If what she said was true then doesn’t it sound like Auntie is in need of counseling?

Despite having the topic explained to her in detail, it took the slow-headed Arina several seconds before she finally understood

“I see So I, I can use ic”

“Eh, wait a minute Stop, reminiscence STOP!”

Arina stood du a face like she did not understand why she was being stopped

“What, … you can use ic?”

“Y, yeah Is it weird?”

“It’s not ‘is it weird’ Aah, I really wanted to retort You try using ic then”

“E, eh… B, but, it’s dangerous”

“Don’t worry about it, hurry and do it”

I was already prepared to see her fail and was ready to continue the conversation ords to the tune of, [See, there was noelse]

However,

“Fire Magic”

As she chanted the spell, fro sound

It then scorched a nearby wall black, she stopped it one second late

“Huwhaaaaaat!?”

This girl really made fire come out

“I, I burned the wall A, are they going to get angry?”

Arina beca detail

“T, they’re going to get angry at Arina so Yuu-kun should run Yuu-kun didn’t do anything bad!”

“Hey, give me your hand!”

I exa incomprehensible

There were no aerosol sprays or tricks like that To begin with, this girl was not equipped with the brain tissue to make a bluff like that She is a sied to believe in her

“… can youother than fire come out”

“T, there’s wind and water and lightning Just a little bit more and I can fly in the sky”

Eh―, what, eh―?